KDP 8.5 x 11 indesign Problems

[fabianpulidocom]

Hello community,

I'm formatting my paper Photo book with some text inside, primary bleed photos.

Having this setup, I' getting lost, I need to set up a template

Can someone indicates with a photo if you can, the correct numbers for my template?

thanks in advance!

- amazon says :

"Interior

• Your file contains insufficient bleed. See examples PDF page(s) 3 - 5, 112 - 114, 216 - 218. 
• 1. Ensure the page(s) are sized correctly for bleed. Interiors with bleed should have 0.125" (3.2 mm) added to the width and 0.25" (6.4 mm) to the page height.
• 2. If the pages are already sized for bleed, make sure you extend any images and backgrounds that you want to reach all the way to the edge of the page at least 0.125” (3.2 mm) beyond the trim line. This prevents white gaps along the outside edge(s) when the file is trimmed to size.
• 3. If there is content that is not intended to bleed, please ensure it stops within the margins, 0.375" (9.5 mm) or more from any outside edge of the page."

[Derek Cross]

Did you supply the document as a PDF, if so, did you tick "Use Document Bleed Settings"?

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Your bleed settings are off.

• Set up the page as 8.5x 11 inches.
• Set the bleed to:
  • 0 inside
  • 0.125 inch outside
  • 0.125 inch top
  • 0.125 inch bottom

Most importantly, and KDP is fussy about this, your content MUST fill the bleed margins on al sides. You can't have an image that stops at a page margin or in between the margin and the bleed. You also can't have anything past the bleed lines, but export to PDF usually takes care of that.

Export to PDF with "use document bleeds" enabled. You should get output pages that are 8.625 x 11.75 and wholly filled by your image content. Anything else is wrong and will either be rejected or get you unwanted print/trim results.

You also want to keep "live content" such as text within their recommended page margins. They allow 0.375 inches for most pages but I'd set the margins at 0.5 inches all around — and 1 inch on the inside for any block of text meant to be easily read. (KDP has very tight bindings and any inside margin narrower than 1 inch, even if permitted, will make it hard to spread the book enough to read it.)

Ask away if any of that doesn't make sense.

[fabianpulidocom]

Thanks, I'll fix it and let you know.

thnaks

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Happy to help. I know KDP's system quite well. Your confusion is common: their guidelines are a weird mix of extreme precision and vague application, and their overall help, tutorial and documentation library is a mess. A lot of their material only makes sense if you're already an experienced pro, and the rest is written so basically it doesn't convey essential information very well.